Friday, 15 August 2008

Dinosaurs invade Los Angeles Museum

Is there anything more eyeball-catching than topless supermodels sunbathing on pleasure trade? Well, yes � when that something is a baby Tyrannosaurus Rex freely roaming the halls of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.



Without any hoopla, the museum launched a new attractive feature in June called Dinosaur Encounters, in which actor-puppeteers don vivid T-Rex or Triceratops suits and expend 20 minutes demonstrating how scientists believe baby dinos behaved. Usually they figure out with interpreter-handlers, but sometimes they just roam free and encounter their public. Which is how a museum-goer�s video recording of a grunting, mazed, 7-foot-tall and 14-foot-long T-Rex inspecting babes-in-arms and other humans at close range came to be posted on MySpacetv on Thursday. �Real Live Dinosaur� climbed to Number One on MySpace�s day-after-day video chart, attracting more than 215,000 viewers by early evening, and far outstripping �Cindy and Heidi Bare It All.� That clipping from TMZ featured stills of Ms. Crawford and Ms. Klum yachting au natural, their modesty preserved by strategically-placed black parallel bars.



Real Live Dinosaur





More than 3,cd comments were posted around the dinosaur video, some speculating on whether it was animatronic, computer-generated, inhabited by an inner